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To W. E. Darwin   24 [February 1852]

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Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  24 [Feb 1852]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1474

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  • … February ( Rugby School register ). He was 12 years old. Ernest Hensleigh Wedgwood , third …
  • … child of Hensleigh and Fanny Mackintosh Wedgwood, was also at Rugby School. He was a year …

To W. D. Fox   7 March [1852]

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Congratulates and "condoles" with WDF on a tenth child.

On education, he has not had courage to break away from "the old stereotyped stupid classical education"; has sent William to Rugby.

The first Ray Society volume [Living Cirripedia] is finished.

Has joined in a society to prosecute violators of the act against use of children in climbing chimneys.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  7 Mar [1852]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 80)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1476

Matches: 1 hit

  • … in Rugby on 24 March when Ernest Hensleigh Wedgwood and William joined them for dinner. …
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